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7: Electronic Brains (4): Water on the Brain  

  
  first broadcast:
Tuesday, November 20, 2001

09:30
Radio 4

 presenter:
Mark Whitaker		 producer: Mike Hally   
"Last in this offbeat, but informative series" (Susan Jeffreys, Daily Mail). Shortly after World War II, a New Zealand engineer started a sociology degree at the London School of Economics. Bill Phillips had already shown remarkable courage and ingenuity, winning an award for bravery in the Far East, then making electrical gadgets as a prisoner of war. At the LSE he didn’t take to sociology but economics fascinated him. He wrote an essay comparing the national economy to a machine pumping coloured water round clear plastic tubes. An older student persuaded him to build one, and it was an immediate success.
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6: Electronic Brains (3): Then we Took the Roof off  

  
  first broadcast:
Tuesday, November 13, 2001

09:30
Radio 4

 presenter:
Mark Whitaker		 producer: Mike Hally   
"I am enjoying this series so much" (Peter Barnard, RT). The Ukrainian city of Kyiv (Kiev) was over-run by the Nazis in World War 2, liberated by the Soviet Army a couple off years later, and by 1945 was in a terrible state. But while re-building started a small group of scientists and engineers found an abandoned monastery in an idyllic setting on the outskirts of the city, in a place called Feofania. There they built “secret laboratory number 1” and started work on the Soviet Union’s first electronic computer.
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5: Electronic Brains (2): Saluting the Moose  

  
  first broadcast:
Tuesday, November 06, 2001

09:30
Radio 4

 presenter:
Mark Whitaker		 producer: Mike Hally   
This programme joins a group of retired engineers who meet every Fall in Connecticut to re-discover the forgotten history of the first American business computer. They worked for Remington Rand, in a converted barn that still “smelled of horses” and had a stuffed moose’s head overlooking them as they worked.
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4: Electronic Brains (1): LEO the Lyons Computer  

  
  first broadcast:
Tuesday, October 30, 2001

09:30
Radio 4

 presenter:
Mark Whitaker		 producer: Mike Hally   
A series of four that
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3: There's No Women Like Show-women (2)  

  
  first broadcast:
Saturday, July 28, 2001

15:30
Radio 4

 presenter:
Clare Jenkins		 producer: Janet Graves   
The second of two programmes in which Clare Jenkins celebrates the history and daily life of Britain's funfairs - as seen through the eyes of the fairground women. Behind the Scenes. Ladies & Gentlemen - Roll Up! Roll Up! And step inside - behind the dodgems and the waltzers, the gallopers and the helterskelter - to find out what goes on before the generators are switched on, the rides light up, and the music begins.
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2: There's No Women Like Show-women (1)  

  
  first broadcast:
Saturday, July 21, 2001

15:30
Radio 4

 presenter:
Clare Jenkins		 producer: Janet Graves   
n/a
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1: The Aboriginal Cricket Tour of England 1868  

  
  first broadcast:
Thursday, June 14, 2001

20:00
Radio 4

 presenter:
Mark Whitaker		 producer: Mark Whitaker   
The extraordinary story of the first overseas cricketers ever to visit England -- a team of Australian Aborigines who toured in 1868. The quality of their cricket surprised the English crowds, but it was a commercial tour and they were marketed as racial freaks. They were never paid and only three ever played again. They were the first cricketers to represent Australia overseas, yet no Aborigine has played for his country since.
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